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docs/index.rst

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-   :caption: Preparation
+   :caption: Quickstart
+   :titlesonly:
+   :numbered:
+
+   start/install
+   start/quickstart
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 5
+   :caption: Data Preparation
    :titlesonly:
    :numbered:
 
-   preparation/install
    preparation/prepare_data
    preparation/reward_function
 

docs/start/quickstart.rst

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+.. _quickstart:
+
+==========
+Quickstart: Fintune a LLM using PPO with GSM8K dataset
+==========
+
+Post-train a LLM using GSM8K dataset
+====================
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+In this example, we train an LLM to tackle the GSM8k task.
+
+Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.14168
+
+Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/gsm8k
+
+Note that the original paper mainly focuses on training a verifier (a
+reward model) to solve math problems via Best-of-N sampling. In this
+example, we train an RLHF agent using a rule-based reward model.
+
+Dataset Introduction
+--------------------
+
+GSM8k is a math problem dataset. The prompt is an elementary school
+problem. The LLM model is required to answer the math problem.
+
+The training set contains 7473 samples and the test set contains 1319
+samples.
+
+**An example**
+
+Prompt
+
+   Katy makes coffee using teaspoons of sugar and cups of water in the
+   ratio of 7:13. If she used a total of 120 teaspoons of sugar and cups
+   of water, calculate the number of teaspoonfuls of sugar she used.
+
+Solution
+
+   The total ratio representing the ingredients she used to make the
+   coffee is 7+13 = <<7+13=20>>20 Since the fraction representing the
+   number of teaspoons she used is 7/20, she used 7/20\ *120 =
+   <<7/20*\ 120=42>>42 #### 42
+
+Step 1: Prepare dataset
+-----------------------
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+   cd examples/data_preprocess
+   python3 gsm8k.py --local_dir ~/data/gsm8k
+
+Step 2: Download Model
+----------------------
+
+There’re three ways to prepare the model checkpoints for post-training:
+
+- Download the required models from huggingface
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+   huggingface-cli download deepseek-ai/deepseek-math-7b-instruct --local-dir ~/models/deepseek-math-7b-instruct --local-dir-use-symlinks False
+
+- Already store your store model in the local directory or HDFS path.
+- Also, you can directly use the model name in huggingface (e.g.,
+  deepseek-ai/deepseek-math-7b-instruct) in
+  ``actor_rollout_ref.model.path`` and ``critic.model.path`` field in
+  the run script.
+
+Noted that users should prepare checkpoints for actor, critic and reward
+model.
+
+[Optional] Step 3: SFT your Model
+---------------------------------
+
+We provide a SFT Trainer using PyTorch FSDP in
+`fsdp_sft_trainer.py <https://github.com/volcengine/verl/blob/main/verl/trainer/fsdp_sft_trainer.py>`_. 
+Users can customize their own SFT
+script using our FSDP SFT Trainer.
+
+We also provide various training scripts for SFT on GSM8K dataset in `gsm8k sft directory <https://github.com/volcengine/verl/blob/main/examples/gsm8k/sft/>`_.
+
+.. code:: shell
+
+   set -x
+
+   torchrun -m verl.trainer.fsdp_sft_trainer \
+       data.train_files=$HOME/data/gsm8k/train.parquet \
+       data.val_files=$HOME/data/gsm8k/test.parquet \
+       data.prompt_key=question \
+       data.response_key=answer \
+       data.micro_batch_size=8 \
+       model.partial_pretrain=deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct \
+       trainer.default_hdfs_dir=hdfs://user/verl/experiments/gsm8k/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct/ \
+       trainer.project_name=gsm8k-sft \
+       trainer.experiment_name=gsm8k-sft-deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct \
+       trainer.total_epochs=4 \
+       trainer.logger=['console','tracking']
+
+Step 4: Perform PPO training with your model on GSM8K Dataset
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+
+- Prepare your own run.sh script. Here’s an example for GSM8k dataset
+  and deepseek-llm-7b-chat model.
+- Users could replace the ``data.train_files`` ,\ ``data.val_files``,
+  ``actor_rollout_ref.model.path`` and ``critic.model.path`` based on
+  their environment.
+- See :doc:`config` for detailed explaination of each config field.
+
+**Reward Model/Function**
+
+We use a rule-based reward model. We force the model to produce a final
+answer following 4 “#” as shown in the solution. We extract the final
+answer from both the solution and model’s output using regular
+expression matching. We compare them and assign a reward of 1 to correct
+answer, 0.1 to incorrect answer and 0 to no answer.
+
+**Training Script**
+
+The training script example for FSDP and Megatron-LM backend are stored in 
+`examples/ppo_trainer <https://github.com/volcengine/verl/tree/main/examples/ppo_trainer>`_ directory.
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+   cd ../ppo_trainer
+   bash run_deepseek7b_llm.sh
+
+The script of `run_deepseek7b_llm.sh`
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+   set -x
+
+   python3 -m verl.trainer.main_ppo \
+       data.train_files=~/data/rlhf/gsm8k/train.parquet \
+       data.val_files=~/data/rlhf/gsm8k/test.parquet \
+       data.train_batch_size=1024 \
+       data.val_batch_size=1312 \
+       data.max_prompt_length=512 \
+       data.max_response_length=512 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.model.path=~/models/deepseek-llm-7b-chat \
+       actor_rollout_ref.actor.optim.lr=1e-6 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.actor.ppo_mini_batch_size=256 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.actor.ppo_micro_batch_size=64 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.actor.fsdp_config.param_offload=False \
+       actor_rollout_ref.actor.fsdp_config.grad_offload=False \
+       actor_rollout_ref.actor.fsdp_config.optimizer_offload=False \
+       actor_rollout_ref.rollout.micro_batch_size=256 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.rollout.log_prob_micro_batch_size=128 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.rollout.tensor_model_parallel_size=2 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.rollout.name=vllm \
+       actor_rollout_ref.rollout.gpu_memory_utilization=0.4 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.ref.log_prob_micro_batch_size=128 \
+       actor_rollout_ref.ref.fsdp_config.param_offload=True \
+       critic.optim.lr=1e-5 \
+       critic.model.path=~/models/deepseek-llm-7b-chat \
+       critic.model.enable_gradient_checkpointing=False \
+       critic.ppo_micro_batch_size=64 \
+       critic.model.fsdp_config.param_offload=False \
+       critic.model.fsdp_config.grad_offload=False \
+       critic.model.fsdp_config.optimizer_offload=False \
+       algorithm.kl_ctrl.kl_coef=0.001 \
+       trainer.critic_warmup=0 \
+       trainer.logger=['console','tracking'] \
+       trainer.project_name='verl_example_gsm8k' \
+       trainer.experiment_name='deepseek_llm_7b_function_rm' \
+       trainer.n_gpus_per_node=8 \
+       trainer.nnodes=1 \
+       trainer.save_freq=-1 \
+       trainer.total_epochs=15